Mad Paws – Head of Product – January 2019

Who We Are

With 25 million pets and counting, Australians love their pets and leaving them while on holiday, at work or even during the day can be stressful for both animals and their humans! Mad Paws is Australia’s largest marketplace for pet sitting and pet related services; the platform allows pet owners to search for pet sitters in their local area and find someone to look after their best friend when they’re not around. We launched 4 years ago and we have been showing extremely strong growth, which we are very excited about. We are venture backed and recently partnered with Qantas to accelerate our expansion.

The Mad Paws Pack is made up of a talented and passionate team working towards creating the largest pet community in Australia. We work hard, whilst also making sure to never take ourselves too seriously and enjoy every minute of this exciting adventure.

The Role

As the leader of the Product Management and UX Design Functions at Mad Paws it will be your responsibility to create the most amazing digital service experience on the market for our community of passionate, pet lovers.

Starting at the top, you will collaborate with the executive team to define business strategy. By understanding the customer, the product and the business’ needs you will drive focus for the product roadmap by defining which metrics matter and why we’re building the features we’re building.

At the ground-level, you will have to get your hands dirty using tactical and soft skills to do whatever it takes to ship and deliver a high quality product that hits business revenue targets whilst maintaining high frequency releases.

Importantly, you are an inspiring people leader, heading up the Product Team and setting an example for the larger team (35 people) as part of the leadership team.

Ideal Candidate

Leadership. A high-performing, results driven and passionate product leader. You care about your team and they feel it. You are inspiring, decisive, take ownership, empower your team, and don’t shy away from tough decisions.

Experience. Proven experience with 5+ years in Product Management

Abstraction. Ability to traverse the gap between high-level strategic requirements and low-level functional business logic.